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Crown Prince Felipe, 2009
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the oldest capital city in what would become the U.S., Spain's Crown Prince Felipe de Borbón y Grecia (center) and his wife, the Princess of Asturias Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (right), visited Santa Fe, N.M. The Prince spoke about the Native-American influence on the area's culture before adding two Spanish coins and a Spanish flag to the city's time capsule, and both royals inspected a cottonwood tree planted by Felipe's father King Juan Carlos on a visit decades earlier.

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